conveys the reasoning behind the move:  [T]he change was prompted by the shifting interdisciplinary landscape of news reporting. When the desk was created in early 2009, the environmental beat was largely seen as "singular and isolated," [managing news editor Dean Baquet] said. It was pre-fracking and pre-economic collapse. But today, environmental stories are "partly business, economic, national or local, among other subjects," Baquet said. "They are more complex. We need to have people working on the different desks that can cover different parts of the story." Andrew Revkin, who writes the Dot Earth blog hosted by the NYT, believes the editors when they "insist that this move will not diminish or dilute the paper’s commitment to sustained, effective environmental coverage." His one caveat:]]>